Lenny performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live Concert Series sporting his new "I'm not trying to look like Prince" look.



Maybe he was listening to James Brown's How You Gonna Get Respect (If You Haven't Cut Your Process Yet).

All kidding aside, I think it's a decent look.
Didn't sound bad either.

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theAudience said:

hah i was JUST about to post about this..maybe he's been reading the org and got sick of people saying he's trying to be Prince

Lenny is SO MUCH BETTER natural than w/ that damn perm!!! Now if he'd just get back on the right track musically I just might fall in love w/ him all over again

Didn't watch the Kimmel show though, I just can't get into it no matter who's on

What did he sing btw?

California and they showed part of Are You Gonna Go My Way.

CalhounSq said:

you can download the performance if u want on www.abc.com and click Jimmy Kimmel

Uh, I don't see what the issue is with Lenny and the man's hair. Although I can relate with what Lenny's been getting, because I get the same shit. I've wore my hair long since I was a little kid. I've been compared to every black male artists who has or has had hair. Hendrix to Snoop Dog, and it's irritating as hell. Sure, I'm used to it now, but..it still gets under my skin when I see other people knocking another brother over some petty shit like someone's hair. Prince doesn't own ANY hairstyle. I seriously doubt Lenny changed his hair because of people comparing him to Prince. The brother probably just wanted a change. That is his God given right, isn't it? What I find interesting is that when Lenny was wearing dreads, no one was saying he was trying to be like Bob Marley. Why not? Marley was a musical legend.

blackguitaristz said:

If Lenny's first album was all reggae, he would have gotten a lot of Bob Marley comparisons.

Thank gawddddd that perm is goneeeee!!!!!

blackguitaristz said:

Of course in a perfect world it should be your "hairstyle doesn't matter".
But without getting into a big political/sociological conversation, unfortunately it's a conversation that is many times bubbling under the surface right or wrong.

I didn't pick up on the Kravitz "trying to look like Prince" theme until I joined the org and just used it to provoke some conversation.

Personally, it's his hair and I couldn't care less.

If all the hippies cut off all their hair
Oh I don't care, oh I don't care.
Dig...
'Cause I've got my own world to live through and uh,
And I ain't gonna copy you.

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sextonseven said:

Say if Lenny did do reggae, first album or tenth album, he would have still gotten compared to Marley, regardless of his hairstyle. That wasn't my point though. My point was that when Lenny did wear dreads, no one tripped because it didn't bother any one that he wore dreads. No one cared. When Lenny cut his dreads and was wearing an uncombed afro, same thing, he didn't catch heat for it. He was still doing the same style of music. Minute he decides to do something a little different to it by pressing it out, here comes the put downs saying NOW he's trying to look like P. Like I said earlier, P doesn't own any hair style. When Andre 3000 had pressed his hair for the video "He Ya", Andre didn't catch nearly as much hell, if any, as much as Lenny did. I think it's something else behind all the hate for Lenny. But that's a whole different topic.

blackguitaristz said:

I think it's because there were so many associations between Lenny and Prince before the change in hairstyle that Lenny got the criticism that he did. Andre 3000 doesn't play funk-rock like Lenny and hasn't performed with Prince on several occasions. That's why he's in the clear.

BlaqueKnight said:

BlaqueKnight, I totally agree with you!!!!

BlaqueKnight said:

Just for the record.

"All kidding aside..."
"Personally, it's his hair and I couldn't care less."

"...and just used it to provoke some conversation."
Being a "slow news day", looks like it worked.

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Yep, it did.

theAudience said:

Personally, it's his hair and I couldn't care less.





yeah..but it did suck....really....

Rhondab said:

Is that from a socio-political point of view or did you just not like the way it looked?

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Lenny should have kept the dreads...Keith Hamilton Cobb should have kept his as well...it's amazing how a hairstyle can completely change someone's looks (and not for the better). Gary Dourdan is the only one I know of who cut off his dreads but still is a looker...I wonder what the next style will be for Lenny...maybe bald...he has'nt done that yet has he?

theAudience said:

I'm not that deep.....


you expected me to have some anti hair straightening message...(in my best angry black woman revolutionary voice)...how the black man and woman needs to grap hold to their roots (no pun intended) and be proud of their nappiness...be proud of every kink and every curl.....


Nah...it was just ugly


[This message was edited Tue Aug 10 18:54:43 2004 by Rhondab]

BlaqueKnight said:

YOU MEAN ORG NOT UNDERSTAND BLACK HAIR

Rhondab said:

That's what I thought.


But I was secretly hoping you'd go militant on me.



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theAudience said:

see....that sounds sexy.....I'll send you a militant orgnote....

Rhondab said:

(putting on prison jumpsuit and blindfold)
Make sure your fro is a full 60" in diameter and you're wearing the darkest sunglasses you can find.



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I'm kinda with Blaque, but I have to admit, I wondered why the hell he dropped the natural (which worked for him) and went with the perm. But still, while Lenny's made a good array of songs, it's impossible to ignore the Prince influence, just as it is impossible to ignore the many obvious influences in Prince's music. Lenny's music isn't transcendant, much of it is disappointing, but it's good enough. He tries and succeeds a lot of the time. That's good enough for me.

well at first i was shocked by the perm look, but i got use to it and i even started to like it, then when i saw lenny on kimmel, he looked like something was missing. I love when he performs how he jerks his neck back and forth, but now he has nothing on his head to shake with it. Well this was just my observation...guess i'll have to wait a few months when he grows something on that head of his.

BlaqueKnight said:

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Cool out dude Lenny just did look good with the perm.

"Prince "fams" or whatever seem to condemn anyone who shows talent and style as if its some threat to Prince or something"

I don't think anyone on this board thinks that Lenny is a threat to Prince. I think the RnR Hall of Fame performance put an end to that speculation.

i liked the perm.....

namepeace said:

I hear ya. Some fans in another thread on this site were talking about one of Lenny's recent videos and how it was so reminiscent of a scene in Purple Rain. The one where came off-stage, stormed down the hallway, and plopped down into his seat in front of his mirror in his dressing room. I didn't think anything of all the claims .... till I actually saw the video. It's more like a parody than simply being reminiscent of it.